Telling a Story
11" x 14" Collage This is one of my all time favorite pieces.....Dick & I were out in Santa Fe, NM, staying at our favorite camp ground.....I had just finished a painting of the "Dough Boy" a sepia painting from an old photograph that was published in the Hertiage Magazine in Lancaster, Ohio. When I finished the piece it didn't tell the story I really want it to tell. That particular morning the Sante Fe Newspaper had an article about a lost exhibit of Georgia O'Keefe at a collage on the east coast. This was a story ready to be told using a collage technique.....Just think of your family story....pictures of your grand parents, memorabilia from school, the list can go on forever. This painting has had a life of it's own....from being in a couple of magazines to Royal &Langnickel Brush Company using it on the packaging for a beginning watercolor kit. I've always had the desire to have my painting to tell a story. W...